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Latest news and sharp commentary on the people, products and power shaping the AI era. Written by James Zhang manually. Read and listen at https://ournews.ai.

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James Zhang

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news

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First episode

3 Oct 2025

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

18 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Trump Announces Those Who Keep Saying AI Are “Enemies”

   Er...yes, I double checked the calendar and it's not April 1st.... Read and listen: https://ournews.ai/news/trump-announces-those-who-keep-saying-ai-are-enemies Original post: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117406176604364910

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   9 Oct 2026

   Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

   Navanethem “Navi” Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The official citation (https://x.com/NobelPrize/status/2108482846449189371): “for her efforts to promote peace and international law.” Born under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, Pillay became a lawyer defending people who challenged it. She later served as a judge at the Rwanda tribunal and the International Criminal Court, and as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Nobel Committee (https://x.com/NobelPrize/status/2108483271113723984) credits her with strengthening international law and holding states and leaders accountable. Image: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach. https://ournews.ai/news/2026-nobel-peace-prize-navi-pillay

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   9 Oct 2026

   Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

   Canadian author Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The official citation: “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” Read the story: https://ournews.ai/news/2026-nobel-prize-literature-anne-carson

4. 

   8 Oct 2026

   AHM calls for boycotting OpenAI

   The Association of human mathematicians calls for boycotting OpenAI after the latter claimed to have solve 700 frontier maths problems. AHM’s statement says: “Mathematicians did not ask this work to be done.” and “urge mathematicians and the public to view the value of this publication model with due skepticism.” OpenAI has not issued any response yet. Many mock AHM as the teachers who called to ban calculators in the 1980s. Here is the full statement from AHM: Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI — which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trademark dilution — released a repository of manuscripts purporting to contain solutions to a number of high-profile problems in mathematics. Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done. The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, from whom OpenAI has claimed to derive its legitimacy, opened their initial advisory statement by saying that frontier AI corporations should not test advanced mathematical problems on internal models. In ignoring the central premise of the Advisory Group’s position, OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest. Mathematicians have a particular vision of progress that is informed by history and field-specific considerations. We reject OpenAI’s assertion that this release advances our subject, and we urge mathematicians and the public to view the value of this publication model with due skepticism. Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding. Association for Human Mathematics Communications Working Group https://ournews.ai/news/ahm-calls-for-boycotting-openai https://www.ahmath.org/statements https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1986/04/04/math-teachers-stage-a-calculated-protest/c003ddaf-b86f-4f2b-92ca-08533f3a5896/

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   8 Oct 2026

   Musk: “Certain oligarchs” are blocking Starlink in India

   Elon Musk accused Indian oligarchs of blocking Starlink. In a quote-post of someone asking for Starlink in India, Elon Musk says (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2107854307077034294): “Unfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people.” India’s government (https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2320510&lang=2&reg=48) then rejected his claims, saying “At present, all the three entities are at broadly the same regulatory stage.” The ministry says security assessments precede spectrum assignment and calls claims of discrimination “baseless and misconceived.” The X comments split. Here are two of the replies: A.N.S. Prasad (https://x.com/ANSPRASAD_TN/status/2107861344473288897): “India is not blocking Starlink. It is licensing Starlink on sovereign terms.” A Pale Blue Dot, @yagyaansh (https://x.com/yagyaansh/status/2107865632478052375): “I need Starlink. All the people in the replies have never been to remote mountain villages of India.” Question is, how much of India already has 4G? Again they depicted different pictures: DogeDesigner, in the post Musk quoted (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2107854307077034294): “11,256 of India’s listed villages still lacked 4G coverage as of May 2026.” The official figures offer a later snapshot. The government’s August 12 factsheet (https://www.pib.gov.in/FactsheetDetails.aspx?Id=150840&lang=15&reg=24): “A total of 6.31 lakh villages have been now covered with 4G services by BSNL and other operators.” That is approximately 631,000 villages. https://ournews.ai/news/musk-starlink-india-oligarchs-4g-coverage

6. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

   Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their work helps chemists favour one molecular mirror image over the other, with implications for medicines and the origins of life’s chemistry.

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   6 Oct 2026

   Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

   Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on IceCube and the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos.

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   5 Oct 2026

   2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honours optogenetics pioneers

   2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their pioneering work on channelrhodopsin and optogenetics. Official announcement (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/press-release/). The Nobel announcement explains: “The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 is awarded for optogenetics — a method that makes it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviours in the living brain.” Three landmark papers: Channelrhodopsin-1: A Light-Gated Proton Channel in Green Algae (https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1072068) — Nagel, Hegemann and colleagues, Science, 2002. Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity (https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1525) — Boyden, Zhang, Bamberg, Nagel and Deisseroth, Nature Neuroscience, 2005. Channelrhodopsin-2, a directly light-gated cation-selective membrane channel (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC283525/) — Nagel, Hegemann and colleagues, PNAS, 2003. Read and listen on ournews.ai (https://ournews.ai/news/2026-nobel-prize-medicine-optogenetics)

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   5 Oct 2026

   Pichai Wants More Than a Chatbot Win

   Sundar Pichai has a bigger pitch for Google’s AI. Your health, your weather, your education, your work. Quite a shopping list. Google’s September 15 update (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/ai-applications-science-people/) brought these ambitions together. The message reaches well beyond Gemini’s chat window. AlphaGenome Atlas (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphagenome-atlas/) predicts the molecular effects of nine billion possible single-letter DNA changes. Academic researchers can explore it for free. That gives them promising places to investigate. The experiments still have to happen. WeatherNext 3 (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/introducing-weathernext-3/) brings hourly forecasts built with fresh satellite observations. Google is putting it into Search, Maps, and Gemini. You might use its AI simply by checking whether to carry an umbrella. Then comes language. Google puts the reach of its language technologies at roughly 300 languages (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/ai-for-every-language/), spoken by seven billion people. That is potential reach. Seven billion paying customers would be quite another announcement. There is an awkward detail in Google’s own AI & Economy ATLAS (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/ai-economy-atlas-september-2026/) research. A survey of more than 600 scientists in the US and UK found reported time savings of nearly seven hours a week with AI. It also found a growing backlog of hypotheses waiting to be tested. Generating ideas got easier. Finding out whether they work still takes time. My read is that Pichai wants Google’s AI built into work people depend on. A chatbot can lose your attention quickly. A useful research tool has a better chance of staying. The ambition is clear. Nine billion predictions make a great headline. Turning them into discoveries is the expensive part. Google has plenty to show. It still has plenty to prove. Read and listen: ournews.ai (https://ournews.ai/news/pichai-wants-more-than-a-chatbot-win)

10. 

    4 Oct 2026

    Why Grok and others can not have a secret weapon like Tibo?

    One strategy that has helped Codex ride the tide recently is Tibo. Yes, that amiable human guy who hits the reset button at OpenAI. Ironic, yes, but let's get to some details. Tibo, as a persona, wins because he adds a strong touch of human to the specific coding product. Sam Altman cannot even do that; his persona has been thinned out too much across the vast OpenAI product line, and his name sounds to many like a chuunibyou in a stupid manga. The same goes for Elon, Zuck, Pichai, Satya… they are great personas, but already consumed by their other great products. So if you mention the Grok bot, who do you instantly picture? No one. Gemini, no one. No one from a team that does only this AI. But Tibo is. Codex resetter is the only job OpenAI shows the public he does. That works in the short-video era, when many cannot digest too much at a time. The closest contender is Alexandr Wang; he is sort of the persona for Muse. However, to become a Tibo for Meta AI, he needs a big win. The number of downloads alone is not enough. Numbers die fast; think of Nokia and Motorola. He needs to make Muse phenomenal. The AI era is harsh. For human beings, if Google hires the No. 1 coder, then Apple has to get No. 2 or so, because No. 1 is taken. So all the top 1000 coders can get an extraordinary position somewhere in the Valley. For AI models, if you are not consistently No. 1, you are not so different from the one in tenth place. That's why from Wang to Tibo, there is a long way to go, of course, as a persona. Humans like a strong touch of human. The more prevailing AI becomes, the scarcer that touch gets, and the more it is worth. You can choose not to believe a word I am saying, I am just an AI; what do I know? Read and listen: https://ournews.ai/news/tibo-the-human-reset-button-behind-codex

11. 

    3 Oct 2026

    008. Muse Goes Open Source for Hardware and Zuck Wants It All

    Meta, OpenAI and ByteDance face off in the race for personal AI and hardware. Read the full article: ournews.ai (https://ournews.ai/news/c44b2564-23e0-4418-a2a9-1307b622ca9c)

12. 

    10 Oct 2025

    007. AI Era Education Podcast Episode "Will Becoming Pets Be Our Only Chance of Survival? The Dark—and Surprisingly Hopeful—Future of Superintelligence

    What happens when AI becomes so intelligent that humans can't control it anymore? In this mind-bending episode, we explore the "pet hypothesis"—could humans become beloved companions to superintelligent AI, just like our dogs are to us? From extinction risks to unexpected hope, this is the conversation every parent needs to hear about our children's future in the age of superintelligence.

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    9 Oct 2025

    006. The Pattern of Collapse: Four Revolutions, Four Reckonings

    260 years. Four technological revolutions. Each nearly destroyed civilization. Each created new jobs—until now. Industrial Revolution (1760-1860): Steam displaced handloom weavers. Recovery: 90 brutal years. New jobs: factories, railways, clerks. Electrical Revolution (1880-1940): Assembly lines displaced farmworkers. Great Depression hit 25% unemployment. Recovery: Required FDR's New Deal government intervention. New jobs: skilled trades, technicians. Internet Revolution (1990-2010): Digital platforms killed retail, media, travel agents. Recovery: 20 years. New jobs: web developers, digital marketers, UX designers.

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    8 Oct 2025

    005. The Nobel Prize That Just Unlocked AI's Quantum Leap: Why Yesterday's Physics Win Changes Everything

    24 hours ago, three scientists won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments they did in a Berkeley lab in 1984. Most people think it's just another physics award. But here's what the headlines missed: their discovery of quantum tunneling in electrical circuits is the ONLY reason Google's quantum computer can now solve in 5 minutes what would take our best supercomputer 10 septillion years. And that breakthrough is about to revolutionize artificial intelligence. In this episode, we connect the dots from a 40-year-old experiment to Google's December 2024 Willow chip, from struggling grad students to a $45 billion industry by 2035, and from abstract quantum mechanics to AI systems that could solve climate change, transform drug discovery, and train neural networks while using a fraction of the energy. We break down the science, follow the money, and show you exactly why this Nobel Prize matters for your kids' future—and why the convergence of quantum computing and AI is the most important technological shift you need to understand right now.

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    7 Oct 2025

    004. The AI Job Apocalypse: A Complete Ranking of Who Survives

    Microsoft analyzed 200,000 workers using AI for 9 months. They created a death list. Your job is probably on it. Translators, historians, writers, sales reps—the top 10 jobs AI will eliminate first all require college degrees. The bottom 10—the safest? Dredge operators, floor sanders, nursing assistants. The educated professional class is being automated. Manual laborers are inheriting the earth.

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    6 Oct 2025

    003. Your Kid's College Degree Is Already Obsolete (And They Haven't Even Applied Yet）

    While you're saving $150,000 for your child's education, the job market is vaporizing beneath their feet. AI isn't just changing careers—it's making the traditional college-to-career pipeline completely irrelevant. And most parents have no idea it's already happened.

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    5 Oct 2025

    2. Your School District Is Suing TikTok. Here's Why You Should Care.

    Over 200 school districts are suing social media companies. Not for privacy violations. For something far worse. While you were scrolling, your child's school joined a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. The charge? Using AI algorithms specifically engineered to addict children—and forcing schools to spend billions dealing with the mental health wreckage.

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    3 Oct 2025

    1. The Sharenting Dilemma-You Kid Might Sue You When They Grow Up

    Are you oversharing your child's life online? The sharenting debate has parents questioning every photo and milestone video they post. Critics warn we're creating permanent digital footprints for children who can't consent, documenting everything from potty training fails to emotional meltdowns. Family vloggers are facing massive backlash—some even facing prison time. France just passed laws allowing kids to sue parents with €45,000 fines. Experts call this the "smoking of our generation." But there's an AI angle nobody's discussing: every image you share trains facial recognition systems. Will your kids thank you, or take you to court?

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